Kitab al-maqamat al-'aliya fi rusum wa suwar al-salat al-nabawiyya, ‘The Exalted Stations Concerning the Drawings and Depictions of the Prophetic Blessings’, Turkey, Ottoman, 19th century

Formerly in the collection of a Middle Eastern Ambassador to the U.K., early 1970s

The manuscript bears the date Shawwal 1090 AH (1679 AD), which most likely refers to the completion of the original text by a certain Mevlevi-zade. The illustrations and text are as follows:

• The noble candle where the Prophet resided before the creation of mankind
• Mecca
• Medina
• Abraham’s garden, where he was cast by Nimrud
• The scale of good works and sin on the Day of Judgement
• ‘Ali’s bow
• The noble candle
• A prayer asking for intercession in the form of the name of Muhammad
• The angel known as al-Ra‘d
• The veil of ‘Ali
• Qur’an 71:10-14; Qur’an 39:73-74
• Paradise
• the Moon
• The Straight Path
• Moses’ rod
• Qur’an 26:43-51, in part
• The Tuba tree
• Dhu’l-Faqar
• Israfil’s trumpet